Is Other M the Best Ever Metroid?

The Metroid franchise has always stood out as distinctly different from the rest of Nintendo's other properties.

Though the dark tales of intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran have always been overshadowed by Mario's bittersweet romps through the Mushroom Kingdom, Metroid has quietly developed and maintained a loyal following.

IMO, Other M is arguably the worst Metroid in the series. Super Metroid and Metroid Prime come way before Other M. Rent or borrow this game before you buy it. I'd have a better opinion of Other M had it been released after Super Metroid but before Metroid Prime. Other M's big problem for me is that it feels like a step backward for the series.

I think this guy said it best, "Other M is a solid Metroid game, but just about every other Metroid game is better"

This game proved to me team ninja is nothing without itagaki, and that studio needs to hire some western developers. How could they do that to Samus? Im not a huge gaming nerd who's in love with Samus, but she's always been such a cool character. Characters like master chief were based on her because of her intelligent, strong but silent domineer. First of all, The first person mood sucks in other M and felt as unnecessary as i thought unfortunately. Team ninja of course made Samus annoying and disproportionate. The first time she has a deicated voice in a game and it's terrible. I'm all for hot girls, but Samus isn't some throwaway tecmo bimbo. She's friggin' Samus! The fact that this Samus exists is plain disheartening.

For better or worse, the entire direction of Other M is from Sakamoto-san. From the control scheme, to the story, to Samus' look in cut scenes, to the gravity suit now glowing purple.

I understand the desire for Samus to be the strong, silent type. The thing is, she still is for the most part (SPOILER: only when losing someone close to her -- almost family -- does she get truly emotional). She's still pretty laconic while speaking to others. It's her inner monologue where we hear most of her angst. But she isn't Lara Croft. She doesn't speak in one liners.

Sorry, Super Metroid craps on Prime. Don't get me wrong Prime was a great game, it's just Super Metroid is a masterpiece. I went back and played Super Metroid a few months back and it's scary how good that game is and how well it's aged.

theres one metroid worse than this its prime hunters i still really liked prime hunters but could have been better the only thing that really kept people playing i think is the story that was involved in this game and how it told you more about adam and how you could fight 2D bosses from older games like Nightmare and Queen Metroid and Phantoon and i say best metroid is super metroid if u dont like super metroid YOU SUCK!

It's a very, very good game, and a very, VERY ambitious game. But it does not top Super or Prime, IMO. Those two are still at the top of the Metroid food chain. But Other M is in the next tier, which isn't a bad place to be.

This game feels very much like the original Metroid to me -- an ambitious design that may have been impossible to fully nail on the first try.

Same here Super and Prime were the best in the series but Other M was a fantasic game. I loved every second of it, this game was made for metroid fans and the part after the credits was bloody fantasic took me right back to the super metroid days. This was a great new style of the metroid gameplay that I wouldn't mind seeing more of, it may have split opinion but you can't deny this is a love letter from nintendo to the metroid fans